Music-holder



Q. N. KOHNKE. MUSIO HOLDER.

a w w M m V v n w i n M M v m n e UNITED STATES I PATENT ()FFICE;

QUITMAN NATHANIEL KOHNKE, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIA NA.

MUSlC-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,529, dated April 30, 1889.

Application filed october 1, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, QUITMAN NATHANIEL KOHNKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish-of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a -Music-Holder; and I do declare the following understood from the following description an (1 claims, when taken in connection with the anneXed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improveddevice. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view showing the manner of securing the upright to the upper bar of a clamp. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with the upright and rod partly broken away. Fig. 4: is a side elevation of the clamp with the upright in section, showing another manner of securing the rod. Fig. 5 is a side elevation with the upright and rod secured to the clamp at a different angle, with a partof the same broken away. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the upright in section, showing the fastening device and music-rod attached; and Figs. 7 and 8 are perspective views, in detail, of the upright and holder rods, showing modifications.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates a clamp, which is composed of two similar bars, a, the upper one being of a slightly greater length than the lower one, as shown. These bars a may have their inner sides faced with felt, cloth, or other similar material, so as not to mar or injure a pianoleaf or other article to which they may be attached. These two bars, which constitute clamping-jaws, are connected by yielding devices, which are here shown as composed of spring-wire. These connections B have one branch let into the rear edge of the upper jaw or bar a, and the free end of the lower branch may terminate in an eye and is secured to the outer end of the lower bar or jaw by a screw or the like, the spring-wire con= nections B having a coil, 6, about midway of Serial No. 286,835. on model.)

their length, so as to produce a clamping action of the jaws.

C indicates an upright-which is secured about midway of the length of the upper jaw a, and on the upper side thereon This bar 0 is designed to serve as a support for a book or for sheet-music, which is to be placed.

against the same. This upright or support 0 may be secured in position by two rods, as shown in Fig. 2,which pass through the lower jaw and take into the upright, with the said upright seated firmly upon the upper jaw.

In some cases the upright" may be raised a little from the upper jaw, and the rods, instead of passing vertically through the upper jaw, may be bent at an angle and passed into the forward edge thereof. This latter construction is better shown in Figs. 4 and 6 of the drawings.

I have also found it desirable in some cases giving the connecting-rods cl a slight bend, as"

better shown in Fig. 5.

D indicates a rod, which is designed to be placed in front of the upright O and at a suf ficient distance therefrom to receive between them the book or music to be held. This rod D, which is of a slightly greater length than the upright C, is designed to bear upon a sheet or leaf and is held at its upper end to the top portion of the said upright.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings I have shown the upper end of this rod as perfectly plain, and employ a hook E, which is pivoted to the top .of the said upright, so as to engage the rod and hold the same in position.

In Fig. 7 of the drawings I have dispensed with the hook E and bent the upper end of the rod at an angle, so as to overlie the upper end of the upright and form a frictional contact therewith sufficient to normally look it in position.

In Fig. 8 of the drawings I have shown the upper end of the upright as notched, and arrange a pin, 6, across the notch. lVith this latter construction I bend the upper end of the rod D to form a shoulder, and design to have the said shouldered portion enter the notch and engage the pin therein. The holderrod D is preferably bent at .its lower end and secured by a screw or the like to the upper side of the upper jaws. In some cases, however, this rod may have its lower end secured to the lower end of the upright and in such cases the lower end of the rod is bent, as shown at f, and let into the said upright.

Having described my invention, what I claim is I 1. In a music-holder, the combination, with a spring-clamp adapted to be applied to the leaf of a piano or the like and having its upper portion composed of the bar to serve as a support for music or books, of an upright bar or support and an upright rod or holder secured to the clamp and adapted to confine music in an open position against the bar,

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

QUITl IAi NATHANIEL KOHNKE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE P. GRIsWoLD, PERCY D. PARKS. 

